Congrats to the Australian (Tasmanian) winner of this year's Booker Prize, which is now open to English language literature from any nation.

It just so happens the winning novel by Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North is set in WW2 Thailand and is a story about the prisoners of the Japanese building the Thai-Burma railway.

The author's father was a survivor of this.

I've read a few biographical accounts on this subject (UK & Aussie) and they are far removed from "The Bridge over the River Kwai" movie, which gives a rather sanitised version of events. I'll be looking to read this book,